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New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-the-neighborhood dept.

First time accepted submitter uigrad_2000 writes "With all the new exoplanets discovered recently with Kepler, it seemed a sure thing that the first exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star would be found soon. The irony is that Kepler was not involved. GJ 667Cc is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, and lies in the habitable region of its host star, reports Scientific American. It was discovered by comparing public data from the ESO to recent observations from Hawaii and Chile. As opposed to the stars Kepler is watching, this is only 22 light-years away, making it even more interesting."

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  1. The universe mocks us by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    The universe mocks us.

    Here's silver candy,
    It doesn't make you fat.
    It'll get you girls and all of that.
    It only sells for a modest fee.
    A quintillion dollars
    Or exceeding C.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
    1. Re:The universe mocks us by PwnzerDragoon · · Score: 5, Funny

      You'd launch mid-season of American Idol and 20 years later you still won't know who won it.

      I already do that. Am I an astronaut?

  2. Re:If we can find them... by Surt · · Score: 3, Funny

    The good news is that if they are looking for oil, we've almost used all of it up, so conquering our planet won't do them much good. :-)

    --
    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
  3. Re:What if we go there? by Surt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because they aren't stupid enough to broadcast their position to the more dangerous gangs in the galaxy.

    --
    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
  4. Re:22 light years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would not be so worried about Doppler shifted radiation. I would be more worried about the 3 foot tall super strong midgets who would live on a planet with 4.5x our gravity. They would undoubtedly be able to break a human man in half with little effort.